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...voted against participation. Additional pressure came from Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, who told President F.W. de Klerk that if the interim constitution did not give more powers to regional governments, he would not abide by the results of the coming election and would initiate the secession of the 8 million-strong Zulu nation. Whether he is serious or just bargaining on behalf of the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party, the A.N.C.'s main black rival, such demands could further fuel the A.N.C.-Inkatha strife that has left thousands dead in the past decade. With tempers flaring, a less-than-magnificent...
...opprobrium, Bonn finally lurched into action -- prodded as well by the realization that right-wing violence was spilling beyond the asylum seekers' hostels, the traditional confines of xenophobic attacks. Not only were the 14th, 15th and 16th fatalities of this year's violence Turks -- members of an influential, 1.7 million-strong community whose labors helped make Germany an economic powerhouse -- but word came of two more murders, both of Germans, committed by rightist thugs. In Berlin a leftist was stabbed; in Wuppertal a man was stomped and burned by assailants who apparently -- and mistakenly -- thought he was Jewish. In Bonn...
...communist movements nostalgic for Stalinist strong-arm rule to ultra-right nationalist parties preaching Russian imperial supremacy. Increasingly, these two have edged toward forming a common front against Yeltsin in the name of "saving the fatherland." Both have been courting the former Soviet army; despite internal divisions, the 3.7 million-strong military remains the only force capable of toppling the government. Another threat may come from the ranks of democrats who carried Yeltsin to power but who have since splintered into factions. Here are some of Yeltsin's enemies, real and potential...
...Rudolph sees it, the 3 million-strong Afrikaner volk inherited a glorious national legacy. "I received it as I received my mother's milk," he says. "I am a son of Africa. The graves of my people are here, and this is where my cradle stood...
ASSUME for a moment that, instead of Kuwait, Switzerland was invaded. What if a million-strong, battle-hardened army swarmed accross its borders? Pretend that Swiss, rather than Kuwaiti, women are being raped in the streets of Geneva rather than Kuwait City...